The new mat slide will be called Aqua Drag Racer, and it's scheduled to debut this summer. It will replace the Bubba Tub, a family tube ride adjacent to the park's Surf Lagoon.

"The new Aqua Drag Racer will pull guests into a high-speed thrill ride unlike any other around," said Michael Black, general manager and senior vice president of Wet 'n Wild.

The beginning of the ride, six stories tall, will be enclosed, with chutes twisted around each other. Then riders, traveling head first, will be ejected into the open-air portion of the slide. Guests will be traveling 15 feet per second, Wet 'n Wild said.

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK — The Navy on Saturday commissioned the USS John Warner, adding a 12th Virginia-class submarine to the fleet and celebrating the legacy of its namesake, the retired senator who was hailed as a statesman.